Kayden’s Korner

The family of Kayden Mancuso has proposed the following as part of their Kayden’s Law reforms:

• Child advocacy, mandated mental evaluation and state psychological testing in family court. Court-appointed lawyer or “skilled” representative that would act as child advocate in custody proceedings. Adherence to expert testimony and require judges to incorporate expert testimony into their orders.
• Increased education for Domestic Relations Office and judges on mental illness
• Proven violent offenders be mandated to supervised visitation while receiving counseling. Domestic relations will provide follow up for proof of counseling or there would be a loss of privileges.
• Emergency Child Endangerment Act. The creation of a mechanism that allows for family to seek immediate protection in an abuse case. At present, a request to modify a custody order is filed and can take six to eight weeks before the case is on the court schedule.
• Constitutional change to the judge selection process (hire slow/fire fast). Proposes that a judge must have a yet-to-be-determined number of years experience in the field of law they preside over.
• Reduction of term. Increase frequency of judicial retention elections from 10 to five years.
• Greater accountability of judges

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